Holding Too Tightly Quotes

#1. We sat with our arms around each other, holding too tightly and not tightly enough.

Samantha Shannon

#2. I wrap my arms around my body, hugging myself tightly, holding myself together. I miss him. I really miss him ... I love him. Simple.

E.L. James

#3. What she was doing was, she was letting it be his idea. She was walking him along, holding his hand tightly enough to lead him, loosely enough for him to be unaware of it. She was an absolute natural. Or maybe all women could do that to all men, if they wanted to.

Ben H. Winters

#4. Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

Lauren DeStefano

#5. He held on to me so tightly it was as if he was trying to stop my heart from breaking by holding it together.

Jane Casey

#6. Affirmation: My Father/Mother God is embracing me and holding me so tightly that nothing can stop nor touch me.

Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

#7. I had awoken back to Hell on Earth with the prince of darkness himself holding me so tightly against him. Almost as if he wanted to make sure that I would never go back to that dark place where he couldn't follow.

Yolanda Olson

#8. I want someone to hold me in the dark beneath the blankets as I wail, saying nothing, only holding me tightly to their chest.

A.M. Caine

#9. He was beside me then, his arms wrapped around me, holding me tightly.
"I'm not crazy," I whispered.
"I know."
Believe it or not, that's the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me.
And I kind of loved him for it.

Ally Carter

#10. Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

Deb Caletti

#11. ...as if I didn't know that holding something too tightly could damage it irrevocably.

Karen White

#12. Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding on too tightly to those things, which in any case are always going to be slipping through our fingers, hurts and gives us rope burn.

Lama Surya Das

#13. Malfoy was screaming and holding Harry so tightly it hurt. Then,

J.K. Rowling

#14. Antony could not resist her and put his hands into her hair, holding it tightly and kissed her with boiling.

Pet Torres

#15. Like is an emotion. Emotions" - he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly - "are like holding water. You open your hand, there's nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. I'm just a woman in the shadows, holding on to secrets so tightly I don't know if there'll be anything left, now that I've let them go.

Gwenda Bond

#17. Have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

Allison McAtee

#18. There comes a moment in every woman's life when something she was tightly holding on to - just slips from her hands. Sometimes it's a dream. Sometimes it's a place . . . a person . . . a purpose. Sometimes it's the life you always thought you'd be living.

Kristen Welch

#19. Everyone stares as Andy slowly, slowly helps Noah stand. They don't really dance
they just hold each other, swaying from side to side, Noah's face buried in Andy's chest, Andy holding him up, their arms encircled so tightly around each other.

Hannah Harrington

#20. You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Diahann Carroll

#21. Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

Tommy Lasorda

#23. It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that one day, I would read and write.

Ger Duany

#24. Sam!" cried Carney. "I'm afraid I lost the flashlight, but ... "
That was all she said for Sam took her in his arms. Holding her tightly he kissed her muddy face, not once but several times.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#25. One more time? For the audience? he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

Suzanne Collins

#26. Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.

Nathan Filer

#27. I started really crying, letting out everything I'd been holding tightly inside. I was relieved, but mostly I was just sad. Sad that I'd been holding on to this when I didn't have to.

Morgan Matson

#28. He let her get almost all the way there, just staring, before he stumbled towards her. They ended in a rush and then fell to the ground together,arms locked around each other, each holding on as tightly as possible. Niether of them said a word.

L.J.Smith

#29. She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

Kristin Hannah

#30. Even though many of us are working very hard at it, we rarely, if ever, experience the joy and peace that are promised in the Bible. So what's the problem? Perhaps we are still holding the reins of our lives too tightly, afraid to surrender ourselves to God's Spirit.

Ann Spangler

#31. Rosie squeezed my hand very tightly, as though to earn some hand-holding credits,

Graeme Simsion

#32. for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.

Sanober Khan

#33. Are you in love with him?'
She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.
'Are you in love with me?'
She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.

Tan Redding